DETROIT - MOTOWN has always been about more than music.

As the soul empire turns 50 on Monday, its founders are looking back at its brand of music dubbed the 'Motown sound' that remains popular today and the record company's role in breaking down racial barriers in America.

PARIS - ASTERIX, the pint-sized Gallic warrior and comic-book hero, is to outlive his creator under a deal with the 81-year-old illustrator Albert Uderzo announced by his publisher on Friday.

Uderzo, who has created the Asterix books single-handed since the death of co-author Rene Goscinny in 1977, has given his consent for the publisher Albert-Rene to keep the character alive after his death.

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